The Perils of Prudence: What the Economic Survey Gets Wrong

New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- The Economic Survey 2025-26 positions itself as a document of strategic sobriety. It urges India to internalise global disorder, practise delayed gratification, and privilege res... Read More

Reserve Bank confronts shrinking policy space as rupee rout leaves few good options

New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- The Reserve Bank of India walks into this week's monetary policy meeting with its manoeuvring room dramatically reduced, boxed in by a rupee that has slipped past 90 to the U.S. d... Read More

Panel warns data credibility at risk, flags gaps in statistical system

New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- Parliament has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on the credibility of the country's official statistics, saying persistent divergences across datasets, inconsistent methodo... Read More

Drug prices are a scandal, and multinational pharma is only part of the problem

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- For a country celebrated as the pharmacy of the world, India remains shockingly hostile to its own patients. Walk into any chemist shop, pick up a familiar branded pill from a mul... Read More

India's IPO Boom Is Dazzling - But What Exactly Are We Building?

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- India loves a good boom. And few booms excite policymakers, investors and television anchors quite like an IPO wave. It signals confidence, ambition, animal spirits - a belief th... Read More